ATTN: MOD POST

[copinggoggles]

Hello, Milliwaysers! I meant to get this post up yesterday, but then I accidentally a house full of cousins for twelve hours. Twelve! Relatives, I love you, but don't you know that I have the internet to attend to? Anyway.

Per Cam's last post on the subject, and given the fact that Dreamwidth staff will soon be lifting the final restrictions (

Comments

[sdelmonte]

I want to state that while I am not in favor of moving the game, I will follow it to wherever it goes.

[sdelmonte]

Also, if the Bar is moving, there should be some sort of plot involving the Bar moving or otherwise being disrupted. Anyone got any ideas?

[copinggoggles]

We do actually have some (admittedly vague at the moment) ideas in that direction, as per the last point in the OP! But rather than send the conversation sprawling off in a dozen different directions, we'd prefer to keep the comments in this particular post focused on the question of whether or not the move should happen at all.

[copinggoggles]

While we're delighted not to lose you in any case, we'd love to know if there's anything in particular that doesn't appeal to you about the idea of moving, or whether there's anything we could do or any concerns we could address that might make it a better experience for you.

[spiderine]

I will follow or stay as is decided by the community at large. I know I'm not often very active these days, but I consider Milliways one of my online homes and read it every day.

Frankly, LJ just pisses me off. Before my financial situation tanked, I've had up to four paid accounts at once but I'll be damned if I give them one more cent of the money I don't have (LOL).

In short, I'm with y'all no matter what. Excelsior!

[dynastessa]

This, exactly.

Milliways is definitely one of my online homes, and certainly my dearest, so I'm fine to move wherever the game is going.

[the_croupier]

I'm sure this has probably come up in discussions already, but it's worth pointing out that this isn't so much 'moving' Milliways as 'copying' Milliways,' given the possibility of crossposting from DW to LJ.

I've been bothered by a lack of a backup for Milliways ever since I started in 2005, and one of the bonuses of trying this is that it might end up being a proof of concept that we could create a *real* backup for the community. Just copying it to DW isn't that, but it's a step in that direction. And it will offer the opportunity to learn first-hand what kind of challenges would be involved in creating that genuine backup. (For example, just how big a problem will broken links be? Dropped icons? Old and deleted pup accounts? Etc.)

Given how much time and thought and care so many people have put into this game since 2004, I definitely approve of not leaving its sole survival in the hands of a single site, no matter what it's done or how it's behaved.

[copinggoggles]

Unfortunately, while individual accounts can crosspost from DW to LJ, at the moment there isn't anything in place that allows for automatic crossposting to communities on either of the two sites, nor do I think that functionality is planned (though I could always be wrong). Plus, even if community crossposting were possible, that wouldn't address the issue of separate comment threads on LJ vs. DW, or how those could be reconciled or... man, I don't even know what, it makes me dizzy just thinking about it. @_@

The long and short of it is, while we would have a copy of Milliways as it was up until the move, continuing to duplicate the game across platforms on an ongoing basis would be an almighty headache. If we move, the archives of milliways_bar here will remain intact (LJ permitting, anyway), but active playing here would cease. Meanwhile, all of said archives would also be imported to

[the_croupier]

Yeah, I can see how the dizzy would build up awfully fast. Very good to see how they're working OpenID into the process, though. I agree, that's a big step

[magneticxman]

I agree with this comment. It doesn't hurt anything to leave the journal on the site, unused.

[tauntingdragons]

While I think the majority does want to move and this might not be an issue anyway, I'm afraid that if we do stay we'll lose players and/or activity will decline greatly because people are so fed up with LJ as is, so, as I'm seeing it, the only thing to do is vote in favor of the move?

Honestly though, I don't have any particularly strong feelings about what's happened regarding all of these LJ changes and whether Milliways stays or goes; I'll just follow the game.

[batyatoon]

I am definitely in favor of moving, but if the game does not move I intend to stay here with it.

Also I agree with Alex that there should be a plot of some kind regarding the move. :D But that's for later discussion, I think.

[batyatoon]

... that comment with that icon terrifies me.

:D :D :D

[tyler_marlocke]

..you both terrify me and fill me with glee.

I WANT IN.